User Reviews

Bull gets demoted from a fully trained law expert psychiatrist to some sort of traumatized and angry dude who's also both, a bully boss and a bully prosecutor fighter with a shade of environmentalist? The protagonist feels completely without direction and with a pretty broken moral compass and the episode works because the actors know their characters and can play them despite the script.

But at the end of the day none of this matters because his team of unconditionals come out with a Deus Ex Machina that allows them to arrange a deal. There's no win, no loss, and you could skip the whole trial.

I normally don't rate individual episodes. But with the huge personilty shifts in the show over 5 seasons, to be fed the bull in this episode is the straw that breaks the camel's back. The writers are once again trying the angry outfit on Bull but it just doesn't fit. I'm sure we've all passed Psych 101 in college and can shrink everything he's gone through but he just isn't selling it; Bull is too smart to entertain this rediculous pity party. Add to that, the episode is about a guy who commits espionage but Bull feels he shouldn't be punished because he didn't intend to harm the US, he just wanted to reveal a problem. It's just not something an intelligent person can chew and swallow without gagging since Bull, more than anyone, knows that to reveal such a problem you hire an attorney, not publish secret government documents on a public website. These snow flake scenarios are the Achilles heel of what should be a good show.

Episode 1 was very emotional and I actually thought the show was going to dig deep this season. Then this bull. I can see why te show couldn't stay afloat, although 6 seasons isn't a bad run.